About this podcast
Bharatvaarta podcast is a commentary on politics, policy and culture focused on India. The podcast brings together people from different walks of life who have varied and interesting perspectives on what's happening around us.
Episodes
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- What is the Science Behind India's Ancient Temples? · 34 minWhy are India's temples built the way they are? Do you really need to visit all 12 Jyotirlingas? And what makes Kashi so significant beyond its famous temples? In this…
- India's Semiconductor Journey: Chip Manufacturing, Global Competition & Qpportunities Ahead · 29 minThe semiconductor industry is at the centre of the world's technological and geopolitical competition. From the smartphones we use to the cars we drive and the AI systems being…
- Manish Sabharwal Explains Why: “A BCom Is the World's Most Useless Degree” · 16 minWhy degrees are overrated, why AI is reshaping the entry-level job, why plumbers and electricians can out-earn graduates, and why your first job matters far less than you think…
- Former RAW chief on Regime Change, Trump and India’s Strategic Future | Vikram Sood · 1 h 0 minIs India right to say no to Elon Musk’s Starlink? Does these battles in Middle east serve a greater purpose ? And why does the West fear India’s rise? Former RAW Chief Vikram…
- What Makes Great Companies? Lessons from India's Best Businesses | Saurabh Mukherjea · 1 h 4 minWhat makes a business truly exceptional is not just how fast it grows, but how it navigates setbacks, withstands uncertainty, and emerges stronger over time. Saurabh Mukherjea…
- Why Are Insurance Commissions Becoming a National Debate? | Monika Halan · 46 minWhat really happens to your money when you buy an insurance policy in India? Monika Halan explains - and it’s a question the whole industry is suddenly being forced to answer…
- If AI Changes How We Work, How Do You Stay Relevant? Manish Sabharwal · 1 h 12 minIndia doesn't have a jobs problem. It has a wages problem. That reframe from Manish Sabharwal sets up one of our sharpest conversations on why India keeps producing record…
- What Is the Real Business Model Behind AI? Ft. Vivek Raghan, Co-Founder Sarvam AI · 27 minAI is getting better. AI models are getting more capable. And yet, in many cases, the cost of using AI keeps falling. So… who is actually paying for all of this? In this…
- If God is Formless, Why Do Hindus Worship So many Idols? Ft. Ami Ganatra · 30 minWho is a Hindu? And what does it really mean to be one? Many of us grew up calling ourselves Hindu, but the deeper we look, the more questions emerge. Is Hinduism a religion or…
- How Much of "Made in India" Defence Is Actually Indian? · 27 minIndia wants to become a defence superpower. But how can that happen when we still depend heavily on foreign technology, engines, sensors and weapons? In this conversation…
- The World Is Changing. How can India Become the Voice of the Global South? · 28 minThe world is changing - and India is being forced to make choices. China has transformed itself into an economic and strategic superpower. The United States is still the world's…
- If RSS Is So Powerful, Why Doesn't It Take Power? The Reign Behind Indian Politics | Sachin Nandha · 29 minThe RSS does not contest elections. So where does its influence over Indian politics and society actually come from? In this focused Bharatvaarta conversation, Roshan Cariappa…
- "Who Is Funding This?" Mohandas Pai On NGOs, Foreign Money, Religious Conversions & Indian Politics · 23 minA closer look at one of the sharpest threads from our full conversation with Mohandas Pai. The complete episode - covering the Gen Z protests, the NEET crisis and India's youth…
- Mohandas Pai on NEET Protests, Education Reforms, Reservations and India's Future | Bharatvaarta · 1 h 9 min22 lakh students wrote NEET this year. There were about 1.35 lakh seats. That gap is where the protests came from — but Mohandas Pai's argument is that NEET was only the…
- How India Is Ending Naxal Terror | The Untold Strategy Behind the Final Crackdown FT. Tuhin Sinha · 27 minEvery nation has a story, but some chapters are written in blood. For decades, India fought an enemy that didn't wear a uniform - an ideology that spread through forests, cities…
- Who's Actually Blocking Young Indians From Politics? | BJP National Spokesperson | Bharatvaarta · 42 min1985: Rajiv Gandhi says 15 paise of every rupee actually reaches the poor. 2009: Rahul Gandhi puts the number at 5%. Twenty-four years apart, same party, and by their own…
- Professional Politicians Are The Most Dangerous People | Bhaskar Rao - On Bengaluru collapse · 53 minWhy did Bengaluru - a city that could have been India's New York, Chicago or Tokyo - collapse into traffic, flooding, garbage, water shortage and "work in progress" chaos? Former…
- “India Needs A New Constitution” | Prof. Gautam Desiraju · 1 h 27 minOne Indian’s vote is worth 2.5 times another Indian’s vote. According to Professor Gautam Desiraju, that single fact reveals a deep flaw in Indian democracy—and fixing it could…
- Why He Walked Away From Microsoft To Build India's AI | Rishi Bal, BharatGen CEO · 48 minMost Indians, when they get a job at Microsoft in Seattle, never look back. Rishi Bal did look back. He left a comfortable engineering career in the US — at one of the world's…
- A Former Ambassador Reveals What Happens Inside India's Toughest Global Negotiations | Mohan Kumar · 1 h 3 minThe post-WW2 world order is dead. The UN doesn't work. The WTO can't function. Multilateralism has collapsed. And the world is now in a dangerous "interregnum" — a period of…
- "India Has 25 Years To Grow Rich Before It Grows Old " — Neelkanth Mishra, EAC-PM | Bharatvaarta · 1 h 17 minIndia has 20–25 years. After that, the demographic window closes. That is the central claim of this conversation. India is racing to do in 50–60 years what the West did in…
- 🤯How PM Modi Won, Deepfake Politics & India's AI Race 🚨| Shashi Shekhar Vempati · 1 h 21 minThis is about How BJP Pulled Off The Biggest Political Comeback Of Our Generation! Behind the historic BJP victory wasn't just a charismatic leader — it was a small group of…
- India's Middle Class is breaking | ft. Saurabh Mukherjea · 1 h 40 minIndia is growing. But why does the average Indian still feel stuck? In this conversation with Saurabh Mukherjea, we break down what’s really happening to India’s middle class —…
- Anuradha Goyal on Temple Culture · 1 h 44 minLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Is India Repeating Its Biggest Historical Mistake🤯 | Vivek Raghavan, Maker of Aadhaar, CEO Sarvam AI · 1 h 9 minIndia is the 2nd largest user of ChatGPT in the world. We are also the largest FREE user of ChatGPT! So what are we really doing? "We're exporting our data and importing…
- Story of Maharani Tarabai - Maratha Queen who Defeated Aurangzeb | Medha Bhaskaran · 1 h 4 minAfter the execution of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, the Maratha Empire stood on the brink of collapse. Leadership was uncertain. The Mughals were advancing. And the idea of…
- Why Hindus Don't Have One God And More | Ami Ganatra · 1 h 19 minIndia’s civilisational identity is often taken for granted — but few questions are as fundamental, and as complex, as this one: Who are we as Hindus? In this wide-ranging…
- The Empire That Almost Ruled India | Uday S. Kulkarni · 1 h 37 minIndia’s past is often told as a sequence of empires rising and falling — but few moments were as decisive as the 18th century, when one power came remarkably close to reshaping…
- Cold War 2.0 Explained | Velina Tchakarova on Wars, Power & India’s Choices · 1 h 13 minThe world is entering a phase where crises no longer unfold in isolation — wars, supply chains, energy chokepoints, sanctions, and strategic rivalries are now tightly connected…
- India’s Hardest Choices in 2026 | Abhijit Chavda · 1 h 11 minIndia is entering a decade where its biggest challenges will not come from visible enemies alone — but from the choices it makes under pressure in a rapidly fragmenting world…
- Hitler: The Proclaimed Messiah of the Palestinian Cause | Aabhas Malhadiyar · 1 h 27 minHistory is often presented as settled, resolved, and safely contained in textbooks. But the reality is far messier — shaped by ideology, selective memory, and the narratives…
- Understanding the Deep State | Former R&AW Chief Vikram Sood · 1 h 22 minIndia is entering an era where power no longer sits only in governments, elections, or visible institutions — it operates through deep systems, narratives, capital flows…
- Deregulation, Civil Service Reform & India’s Growth Story | Manish Sabharwal · 1 h 10 min⚔️ Manish Sabharwal — Why India Isn’t Creating Jobs, Regulatory Cholesterol & Fixing the Administrative State 🇮🇳📉 India doesn’t lack land. It doesn’t lack capital. And it…
- Inside the RSS: How the Sangh Shapes Policy & Politics in Modern India | Sachin Nandha · 1 h 53 min⚔️ Sachin Nandha — Inside the RSS, Rashtra vs Raja & How Power Really Works in India 🇮🇳🧠 The RSS has never contested an election — yet it remains one of the most influential…
- The Algorithmic War — Big Tech, Geopolitics & India’s Security Future | Col. Pavithran Rajan · 1 h 14 min⚔️ Col. Pavithran Rajan — Are We Already at War? Algorithms, Sovereignty & The Future of India’s National Security 🇮🇳🛰️ War today isn’t declared — it’s engineered. In this…
- Path to Becoming a Defence Superpower || SSS Defence Co-Founders Vivek & Dinesh · 1 h 44 min⚔️ Vivek Krishnan & Dinesh Shivanna — India’s Defense Tech Reality, Broken Incentives & What Must Change 🇮🇳🚀 Instagram → /carygotthebluesg ambition is rising — but the gap…
- How Modern Wars Are Fought — Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla · 1 h 8 min⚔️ Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla — Civil–Military Fusion, China’s Rise & The Future of India’s National Security 🇮🇳🚀⏱️ Chapters🎧 Listen & Subscribe👤 Guest — Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla (Retd.)👤…
- Manu Joseph Unfiltered | Poverty, Feminism, BJP, PM Modi, and more · 1 h 25 min⚡ Men Can’t Be Feminists? | Manu Joseph on Privilege, PM Modi’s Decline & The India We Ignore 🔥 India is growing fast — economically, culturally, globally. Yet on the ground…
- Decoding India's epic timeline: Mahabharata through science | Nilesh Oak- Author · 1 h 19 min⚔️Did the Mahabharata actually happen – Nilesh Oak on Evidence, Astronomy & India’s Ancient Timeline 🌌📜 For over a century, scholars have debated when the Mahabharata actually…
- Why the West Misunderstands Indians and Hindus | Vishal Ganesan- Researcher · 1 h 56 minFor over a century, the West has viewed Hindus through its own lens — first as mystics, now as misunderstood outsiders. In this conversation, Vishal Ganesan, founder of Frontier…
- How Raja Marthanda Varma Defeated the Dutch | Raghu & Pushpa Palat – God’s Own Empire · 38 min⚔️ The King Who Defeated the Dutch – Raghu & Pushpa Palat on Raja Marthanda Varma and Travancore’s Forgotten Legacy 👑 Raja Marthanda Varma was the only Indian ruler to defeat a…
- Aurangzeb, Whitewashing & India’s Forgotten Truths | Saurabh Lohogaonkar – Author · 1 h 10 minAurangzeb, History & the Politics of Memory – Saurabh Lohogaonkar on India’s Distorted Past ⚔️📖 Aurangzeb remains one of the most polarizing figures in Indian history —…
- Why Muslims Still Feel Separate | Prof. Salvatore Babones – Political Sociologist · 1 h 11 minIndia’s democracy continues to puzzle the West — thriving amid diversity, faith, and chaos, yet repeatedly misjudged by global indices and foreign intellectuals. In this…
- H-1B Visas, Cyber Coolie Myth & India’s Tech Destiny | Mohandas Pai – Infosys Veteran & Investor · 54 minIndia’s technology story is at a crossroads — from America’s visa games and rising protectionism, to India’s own challenges with innovation, policy, and capital. In this…
- Deep State, Pakistan & India’s Next Moves | Vikram Sood – Former R&AW Chief · 1 h 3 minIndia’s neighborhood and the wider world are in flux — from youth-led protests in Nepal and regime change in Bangladesh, to Pakistan’s endless games and China’s march to 2049. In…
- How GST 2.0 could transform Indian Middle Class | Ajay Rotti - Taxation Expert · 1 h 3 minIndia’s tax system is once again at a crossroads with GST 2.0. What began as the biggest reform in independent India was riddled with compromises, complexities, and billion-rupee…
- Why India Is “Problematic” for the US | @AbhijitChavda on Trump Tariffs, India's Response, & More · 1 h 23 minIndia’s foreign policy faces new challenges as the US shifts from calling us a “partner” to branding us “problematic.” What does this mean for India’s place in the world? Abhijit…
- Why Bollywood Glorifies Akbar and Ignores Ch. Shivaji Maharaj | Medha Bhaskaran · 53 minIn this hard-hitting follow-up, author Medha ji dismantles pop-culture myths around the Mughals and revisits why Ch. Shivaji Maharaj’s revolution mattered. She challenges…
- The Real Story Behind Netflix’s Khakee | IPS Amit Lodha · 1 h 4 minIn this honest and deeply inspiring episode, IPS officer and bestselling author Amit Lodha — the real-life hero behind Netflix’s Khakee: The Bihar Chapter — shares raw insights…
- The Forgotten Genocide That Sparked Swaraj | Medha Bhaskaran · 1 h 12 minIn this stirring episode, author Medha Bhaskaran uncovers the brutal history of the Hindu holocaust, forgotten battles, and the rise of Shivaji — not just as a warrior, but as a…
